"Open Source" Motif

Martin Konold konold at suse.de
Tue May 16 08:33:58 UTC 2000


On Mon, 15 May 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:

> I would seriously ask TOG to rewrite two or three of the clauses in the
> QPL as a matter of enforcability for one and awful ambiguities for
> another.
> 
> The QPL ended up not what I expected at all.  There are a couple of
> clauses in that license that are truly terrible and reading through the
> thing you can see that clearly if you speak English (or some variant of)
> natively.

Well, according to my experience people (of all countries/cultures) I have
been talking to seem to understand the QPL much better than the GPL. BSD
seems to be the simpliest.

Regards,
-- martin




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